Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-16

right when you would have gone
istray, and which, after you had made
a rooked track recalled youP The
rope may be as long as thirty years or
live hundred miles long or three
thousand miles long, but hands that
went out OF Mortal sight long ago still
hold the rope. You want a very swift
horse, and you need to rowei him with
sharpest spurs, and to let the reins
lie loose upon the neck, and to give a
shout to the racer, if you are going to
ride out OF reach of your mothers
prayers. Why, a ship crossing the
Atlantic in six days can't sail away
from that. A sailor finds them on the
lookout as he takes his place, and finds
them on the mast as he climbs the
r~atiines 10 aisentangie d rope il the
tempest, and finds them swinging on
me hammock when he turns in. Why
not be frank and acknowledge 1.-THE
most of us would long ago have been
dashed TO pieces had not gracious and
loving hands steadily and lovingly and
nightly held the rope.
But there must come a time when we
shall find out who these
DAMASCENhS
were who lowered Paul in the basket,
and greet them and all those who have
rendered to God and the world uurec-
ognized and unrecorded services. That
is going to be one Of the glad excite
ments of heaven, the hunting up and
picking out OF those who did great
good on earth and got 20 credit for it.
Here the church has been ON on
nineteen centuries, and yet the world
has not recognized the services of the
people in that Damascus balcony.
Charles 6. Finney said to a dying
Christian: ''Give my love to st. Paul
when you meet him." Wien you and
| meet him. as we will. | shall ask him
to Introduce me to those people who
got him out Of the Damascene peril.
We go into long m to prove
that we will be able to recognize peo-
pie in heaven, when there is one reason
we fail to present. and that is better
than all-God viii introduce Us. We
shall have them all pointed out. You
would not be guilty OF the impoliteness
Of having friends in your parlor not
introduced, and celestial polite.
ness will demand that we be
made acquaint,d with all the
heavenly household. What rehearsal
of old times and recital Of stirriu4
"reminiscences! If others fail to give
introduction, God viii take IL through,
and before our first twenty-four hour.
in heaven-if it were calculated hy
earthly timepieces-have passed, W.
Shall meet and talk with more heavenly
celebrities than in our entire morta
state We met with earthly celebrities,
; Many who made great noise of useful.
ness will sit on the last seat by the
/, front door Of the heavenly temple,
while right up within arms reach Of
the heavenly throne will be many who,
though they could net preach them
: selves or do great exploits for God,
nevertheless held the rope.
Come, let US 60 right up and accost
those on this circle of heavenly thrones
) Surely, they must have killed In battle a
/, MILLION MEN.
Surely they must have been buried
with all the catbedrals sounGiog i
dirge and all the towers Of all the
cities toiling the national grief. Who
art thou, mighty one of heaven? 81
lived by choice the unmarried daugh.
ter in an humble home that | Nigh,
take care Of my parents in their old
age, and | endured without complaints
all their querulousness and admins.
tered to all their wants for twenty
years
Let us pass on round the circle OF
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one OF
heavenp Il was for thirty years q
Christian invalid, and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing Il note OF
sy mpathy for those worse OF than |
and was general confidant of all those
who had trouble, and once in a while
was strong enough to make IA garment
for that poor family in the back lane
Pass on TO another throne. Who ar
thou, mighty one of heavenP Il was
the mother who raised a whole family
Of children for God, and they are out
in the world Christian merchants,
Christian mechanics, Christian wives,
and have had full! reward of all my
toll" Let us pass on in the circle OF
thrones. Il had p Sabbath schoo.
class, and they were always on my
heart, and they all entered the king.
dom of God, and 1 am wait ne fol
their arrival"
But who art thou. the mighty one OF
heaven on this other throne? '.In time
of bitter persecution l owned a house
in Damascus, a house on the wall. A
man VIII, preached Christ was bounded
from street to street, and bid him
from the assassins, and when | found
them breaking in my house and could
no longer keep him safely, | advised
him 70 flee for his life, and a baskel
was let down over the wall with the
maltreated man IN it, and | was One
who helped hold the rope" And
said: lis that alI?' aAnd he answered
That is ALL" And while | was lost
IN amazement / heard a strong voice
that sounded rs though it might ono.
have been hoarse from many expos
ures, and triumphant rs though i,
might have belonged to one of the
martyrs, and il said: "Not many
mighty, not MANI noble aye called, bul